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SIMtone Corporation Announces Support for the Microsoft NXT Initiative
Durham, NC (February 7, 2008) – SIMtone Corporation's High Performance Computing division, formerly ASPEED Software, today announced support for Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 to provide accelerated benefits now to developers and users for High Performance Computing (HPC). Historically multi-core has not taken hold based for several reasons. With the NXT Initiative and the HPC teams at Microsoft Corp., ASPEED will dramatically bring to market quicker cost effective solutions to address the pent up demand for parallel computing on the cost-effective Microsoft platforms.
"Historically parallel computing as a basis for new programs, hasn't taken hold partially because the 100 billion lines of single thread code that are running our businesses today can't stop, wait for the retooling and integrate," said Kurt Ziegler, Executive Vice President of SIMtone High Performance Computing division. "We know that with contemporary platform solutions from Microsoft and ASPEED, the legacy solutions can be made multi-core ready now without being re-written."
The NXT initiative enables ASPEED to have faster access to technology to make smart development and business decisions to meet the needs of existing and new target market customers. The benefits to customers enable them to move custom and standard applications into parallel processing benefits on Microsoft's platforms which include:
- Windows HPC Server 2008
- The Microsoft Office system (Versions 2000, 2003 and 2007)
- .NET Framework-enabled applications including Microsoft Visual Studio tools
With Microsoft the total cost of ownership for HPC solutions can be demonstrated to be lower than other models in the industry. With ASPEED and Microsoft, the legacy applications can now be more competitive and life elongated to further enhance a company's competitive position and return on investment.
About ASPEED Software
The ASPEED product line is delivered by the SIMtone Corporation's High Performance Computing division. ASPEED software is widely used by some of the industry's leading financial institutions. ASPEED significantly improves performance and scalability and reduces response times by enabling single threaded and multi-threaded applications to leverage multi-core systems, clusters and grids. For more information, visit: www.aspeed.com.
About SIMtone Corporation
SIMtone Corporation transforms computing into low cost, network provisioned services, pervasively accessible by everyone. SIMtone has developed and commercialized the patent-pending SIMtone, a simple, universal service provisioning platform that can deliver on-demand services such as virtual desktop environments, applications, and media content seamlessly to a wide variety of devices including PCs, thin clients, mobile devices, set-top-boxes, and terminal devices. Its flagship SIMtone VDU along with the new SIMtone CDU deliver a virtualized, fully accessible and secure "PC in the cloud" experience to users while eliminating the need to purchase and maintain costly technology infrastructure. SIMtone is a privately-held company backed by Kodiak Venture Partners and Motorola Ventures. For more information, please visit: www.SIMtone.net.
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